Congratulations to —

Ben Upham, assistant professor, Automotive Service Technology. Ben helped register some of
my students while I was attending a conference. Ben also has taken a lead in the details
of obtaining NATEF re-certification and dealing with applicants on the new faculty search committee. Ben is a great colleague
to work with.

Sandy Morningstar, Purchasing Office. So many people are confused and/or stressed out about Banner
and Sandy is on the front-lines for calls and questions. I know that I alone have
had numerous questions and issues, and I'm sure that others were also calling Purchasing
with the same kinds of things! She does what she can to make the turn-around time
from requisition to purchase order as brief as possible and never seems annoyed that
our department always needs things "right away." Through it all Sandy keeps her pleasant
demeanor and takes all the stress projected onto her in stride.

Nancy Walcutt, student services representative, Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid. I would
like to express the fact that we are very lucky to have Nancy working for our department.
My husband and I were having dinner and one of out students that I have helped in
the past was our waitress. She wanted me to know how grateful she was that I had referred
her to Nancy Walcutt because she was awesome. She wanted to make sure that I thanked Nancy and said over
and over how wonderful she was.

Josh Hayes, computer technician, Academic Technology Services, College of Education and Human
Services. His readiness to tackle any issue that comes up is amazing and he always
does this with professionalism and efficiency. We are very luck to have such great
support.

Andy Butts, student computer technician, ATS. For his help in an extremely time sensitive job.
He was able to juggle his schedule and regular duties and put in extra time in order
to get a database ready for Fall 2005 semester. He was under enormous time constraints
and pretty much on his own, and Andy managed to get the database done early and even
update the setup a little. He finished this up and never slacked on his everyday duties.

This past month, we had a *very* large project of disposing about a years worth of
old computers. They all needed to be evaluated, recorded, packaged and shipped in
a very short time frame. So most of the students from the TAC and Inventory, along
with John Monahan and Gary Lutz, spent long days in those really hot July days doing all this work. The whole group
worked as one well-organized team, and we recycled over 500 old monitors, 200 CPUs,
150 printers, and may other assorted parts and papers. It was amazing to see how much
work they got done in a short amount of time.

I would like to give the following people pat on the back awards for their part in
the process:
TAC students: Beth Garcia, Kari Kailing, Buck Rathbun, C. J. LaTourneau, Nathan Selby, Daniel Moellering, Darci Stevens, Jennie Balberde